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Aug 2026
FibTac: a fiber-based pneumatic gripper with embodied tactile sensing
Robots rely on tactile sensing to manipulate objects safely and effectively in complex environments, yet most existing tactile sensors remain limited to planar contact sensing and do not tightly integrate perception with physical manipulation. Inspired by animals that use filamentary appendages such as whiskers for sim...
Sheeraz Athar, Xin-Wei Zhang, Md Rakibul Islam Prince et al.
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